An unidentified person at the LA International Airport was stopped at a security checkpoint for carrying boxes with fentanyl pills in popular candy boxes. The suspect carrying around 12,000 fentanyl pills escaped authorities before being identified.
Aaron Shamo was once the clean-cut kid next door.
The Salt Lake City millennial hailed from a good family, had been an Eagle Scout and had charm and good looks.
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SALT LAKE CITY The criminal case tied to a multimillion-dollar drug ring, that operated from a Cottonwood Heights basement and used the darknet to sell pills laced with a powerful and deadly opiate, drew to a close Friday as those who helped run the scheme were sentenced to prison.
Aaron Shamo, the 31-year-old college dropout who authorities said raked in millions of dollars selling the fentanyl-laced painkillers on the darknet, was ordered in October to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The pills he pressed in his basement and sold with the help of eight others caused more than 90 deaths. They say the actual total isn t clear because investigators couldn t track down every distributor who purchased the pills in bulk and then sold them to others.
Members of multimillion-dollar opioid drug ring sentenced July 16, 2021 at 5:54 pm This undated booking photo provided by the Tooele County Sheriff s Office shows Drew Crandall. The final legal chapter of a multimillion-dollar online opioid drug ring ended Friday, July 16, 2021, as a group of millennials who helped run the dark-web operation based in suburban Salt Lake City were sentenced to prison. Crandall helped start the operation that eventually grew to shipping tens of thousands of fake pills laced with the deadly opioid fentanyl to people nationwide in 2016. He cried as he grappled with his role in the operation that prosecutors have linked to multiple overdose deaths. (Tooele County Sheriff s Office via AP, File)